Bodies found in jail renovation

The finding of irregular burials is far more common than most people think. Of course here the burials were not so much irregular as undocumented.

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STRATFORD, Ont. - Workers in Stratford, Ont., renovating the local jail made a disturbing discovery this week – two bodies buried on the site.

The bodies are believed to be those of two men hanged for murder in the southwestern Ontario city more than 100 years ago.

“We did know there may be some bodies on the site,” said Julia Sakas, communications advisor for the Ontario Realty Corp., which manages the building owned by the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure.

The bodies are believed to be those of a vagrant by the name of Almeda Chattelle, who was hanged for the gruesome killing of a 13-year-old girl in 1894, and of Frank Roughmond, hanged for the rape and murder of an area farmer's wife in 1908.

According to records from the time, both men were buried on the jail property.